> How the "old-timers" managed to optimize must have had a pretty painstaking
>learning curve. Now the PC "super computer" on your desktop can do several
>hundreds of 10 variable trade off calculations in a few minutes. No
>kidding. I was the National Sales Manager for Amateur at Hy-Gain/Telex some
>years ago and I talked to Howard Pabian who designed the TH-6 - at one time
>THE Gold Standard for HF yagi performance. Hy-Gain had a nice antenna
>range and you could run antennas up and down for easy changes. He said it took
>4 hours for one iteration by the time you changed the necessary physical
>hardware dimensions. Ah, the good olde days - hi. Cheers,Steve K7LXC
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